Karen Snell

Author on Reedsy Prompts since Jun, 2022

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“New Beginnings” by Karen Snell

Submitted to Contest #231

Word count: 2, 657 New Beginnings   It’s easier to start a story than to finish one. The gringa washing clothes in the river reaches over her pregnant stomach to the basket with one of her daughter’s little dresses and holds it up to the sun. Now it’s faded and almost too small for her daughter, Karina.  Over a year ago she bought the dress for Karina’s first birthday. It was bright orange. When she washed the dress for the first time, the orange dye bled into the river. That was when J...

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“It's Mine, You Can't Have It” by Karen Snell

Submitted to Contest #185

“Whoa, that’s great rock pile! There must be a thousand rocks in there. And some of them are huge. I could really use those to fill in the hole where we are going to lay the concrete slab for our house.”            “Oh no. These rocks are like my friends, we’ve been through a lot together. I wouldn’t let you drop them under a concrete slab!”            I was taken aback that the old lady was going to hold out on giving me those rocks...

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